GROUND·SIGNAL
INDEPENDENT FIELD INTELLIGENCE

What communities actually think about the projects being planned around them.

Field-based research on the local acceptance of major energy and infrastructure projects in development — for the professionals who need an accurate picture before the decision.

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WHAT WE DO

We go to the ground.

Around each project we cover, our researchers spend time in the community itself: in-depth interviews and community conversations with residents, farmers, business owners and local representatives on every side of the question — read against the official planning record.

The result is a structured field report: who actually shapes local opinion, which concerns are hardening and which are soft, what is verified and what is rumour, and how the situation is likely to move. Each project is then monitored, with updates on hearings, decisions and shifts in local sentiment.

Our field reports are read by developers, local and national government, investors, lenders and suppliers across Europe.

METHOD

Primary sources, balanced samples, findings on the record.

RESEARCH
Independently initiated. Findings are not commissioned, reviewed or amended by any party to a project.
INTERVIEWEES
Selected by our researchers alone, across supporters, opponents and the undecided — never proposed by developers or campaign groups.
EVIDENCE
Every claim is classified: direct observation, attributed statement, or local rumour. We publish the distinction.
SOURCES
Quoted anonymously by role. Named only with explicit consent.
OBSERVED
Seen or heard first-hand by our researcher, on site.
ATTRIBUTED
Stated in interview. The source is known to us and quoted by role.
RUMOUR
Circulating locally, no primary source found. Reported — and labelled — as such.
How every claim in a Ground Signal field report is classified
FOR RESIDENTS & INTERVIEWEES

If one of our researchers has spoken with you

Thank you. Conversations like yours are the core of our work: they carry the reality of a community — as it is, not as others describe it — to the people making decisions about these projects.

Your words are quoted anonymously, by role only (“a local farmer”, “a business owner”), unless you have explicitly agreed to be named. Recordings and notes are used solely for accuracy and are never published or posted anywhere.

Ground Signal is independent. We are not engaged by the developer, the local authority, or any campaign for or against a project.

Questions about a conversation you've had with us: hello@groundsignal.eu

CONTACT

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